Responses to Reviews:
1. Lusec13 - He appears almost identical to canon minus the blue eyes. I may add some more changes as he grows up though.
2. Sceonn - Don't drop it yet. While Susano'o is OP I made it so it doesn't ruin the story.
3. Biospark(Guest) - Indra isn't filled with rage, he just isn't happy with what he know about the gods.
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Disclaimer: I have 300 dollars in my bank account. You tell me if I own Percy Jackson or Naruto
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Olympus
"ZEUS!" Hera's voice echoed throughout Olympus.
The wrath of Hera was beginning to cause some of the lesser beings on Olympus to faint and hide. Even the gods were beginning to sweat. They haven't felt Hera this furious since Zeus claimed his last child some years ago. Though if they were to compare the two incidents, this time would be considered far more severe.
Though not for the reason they were expecting. Posidon, surprisingly, was silent so far but Hera made up for it by emitting enough power and rage for the both of them. They were almost certain Hades was the same.
In a thunderous flash of lightning Zeus teleported to the throne room. Shortly after the other Olympians who weren't already present appeared as well. All 12 Olympian gods were sitting in their thrones trying their hardest not to look at Hera as they waited for Zeus to explain himself.
"Brother, what is the meaning of this?! You dare to break your oath again." Posidon demands, breaking the tense silence.
"An excellent question Posidon, why doesn't my insufferable, lying, cheating... Man-Whore of a husband explain why there was just a child claimed under his symbol!" Hera exclaimed, her eyes blazing with a barly restrained rage.
"Enough!" Zeus shouted. "Hera, you will not speak to me like that again, is this clear." Thunder boomed outside, driving his point home.
"Why you--!" Hera started.
"Father, you know the dangers of having a demigod child given what the prophecy is. I'll need to revamp Olympus's defenses again." Athena chastised. She was not going to listen to another argument between Zeus and Hera.
"Olympus will be fine. My son will not be responsible for our fall." Zeus replied.
"How can you be so sure brother? Chances are you've doomed us all." Posidon reflected.
"Olympus will not fall. That's enough!" Zeus once again rose his tone. The other gods listening silently, not letting any emotion show on their faces.
"Pah, let the little shit do his worst, I could use a good fight!" Aries exclaimed. There was no way he would pass up fighting one of his fathers spawn. It's been around 400 years since he last fought a demigod son of the sky. That brat had openly humiliated him by helping Hephastus capture him when he was having some 'quality time' with Aphrodite. Ares challenged him to a duel that ended with a near dead demigod and a punishment that he would rather not have happen again. But a little revenge wouldn't hurt.
"If that is all I will be leaving. Hera, we need to talk about that tone you used against me!" Zeus said. And flashed both himself and Hera away in a bolt of lightning.
Before any other gods could leave Athena spoke. "Artemis, report to me if there is an increase in monster activity, I have a feeling something big is stirring."
Artemis nodded and flashed away. "Apollo, have you seen anything in the future with your abilities?" Athena then asked, turning her head.
"How many times to I have to tell you I can't see everything in the future. But, I did have a vision not too long ago." Apollo replied.
"What did you see?" Posidon questioned. Most of the gods had forgotten he was still there given that he was surprising subdued during the reveal of Zeus's claiming. Last time it took a week before Olympus stopped having tremors.
Apollo looked toward his with an unusually serious expression. "Not much, just a voice. But it's where it came from that worries me."
"Just say it Apollo, I have things to attend to." The sea god said.
"Tartarus. The voice came from Tartarus." Apollo said in a hushed tone. Eyes widened and gasps could be heard. The room darkened and a cold feeling enveloped everyone.
Posidon and Athena's brows scrunched in thought. "Hermes, send a message to Hades to be vigilant." Posidon commanded. Hermes nodded before flashing away.
"Meeting adjourned, Athena, Hephastus, make sure Olympus is prepared should anything happen." With that, all the gods and goddesses disappeared, leaving the throne room empty save for a small girl in the back of the room tending to a hearth.
"Be safe Indra. I'll do my best to keep your mother safe." The small girl proclaimed, peering through the hearth at the image of a sleeping boy.
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Indra's eyes slowly opened to the dark hospital room he was resting in. As he rubbed his eyes, memories of the day before started to come back to him.
Not long after Indra was claimed, police and firefighters arrived. One of their neighbors had apparently called when they saw the state of their house. Or, more accurately, what was left of it.
It seemed that while they were running through their underground tunnel, the house had set on fire. Not only had they been attacked, bruised and battered, but they lost all of their belongings as well. When the police heard the explosion caused by Indra's lighting, they drove over there and found them.
Luckily, they weren't questioned about what happened. Haya was more injured than Indra thought and he passed out not long after paramedics put him and his mom onto stretchers.
Afterwards they were driven by ambulance to the hospital and spent the the rest of the night and morning sleeping before Indra woke up. He and his mother were in a shared hospital room so he had the unfortunate privilege of seeing his mother in her heavily injured state. She had casts on all of her limbs and was practically a mummy in bandages. IVs were connected to her arm and the rhythmic beating of the heart monitor sounded in the room. What he could see of her face was frightening. She had deep black eye bags under her eyes and her skin was paler than he had ever seen it before. She was reminiscent of zombie without her healthy coloring.
Indra would never forget the scene he was seeing right now. A feeling of regret sat in his chest.
Once again he wasn't strong enough from keeping his loved ones safe from harm. Once again he was forced to sit and watch as they suffered when he should have been able to help them. What good was being a demigod with supernatural powers if these were the resulting consequences.
Sitting up more, he looked around the room and found a button along his cot that called for a nurse to come. He wanted--no needed to know if his mother would be alright.
Not even a minute later, the door opened and in came a nurse along with a doctor and a police officer.
The nurse was the first to speak. "Hey sweetie, are you ok? Do you feel any pain anywhere?" She asked in a soothing voice.
Faced with the question, Indra finally took it upon himself to examine his own health. There was no pain or injuries apart from some bruising and cuts which had yet to heal from his fight. "I'm fine." Indra replies cordially.
"That's great to hear!" The nurse said excitedly. Over the next few minutes she did a basic checkover before quietly exiting the room.
The room was quiet for a moment before the doctor who was still in the room along with the officer spoke. "It's nice to meet you Indra, I'm Dr. Wilson and I'll be the one looking after you and your mom for the foreseeable future."
"Now Indra, I want you to bear with me for a bit while this nice officer here asks you a few questions. Normally we would wait and ask your parent first but...we'll get to that later." Dr. Wilson misdirects. At the pause, Indra got a sinking feeling in his stomach before refocusing and looking up at the officer.
"Hey kiddo, I'll be asking a couple of questions and then I'll be out of your hair. Don't feel pressured, you don't have to answer any if you don't want too." says the officer.
"You don't have to treat me like a kid, ask away." Indra said with a flat tone. He'd gotten used to being talked down to as a child but given the recent events he was in a no-nonsense mood.
The officer smiled, "Do you have any idea how the fire in your house started?"
Oh yeah, the fire. Indra vaugly recalls the paramedics mention a house fire when they brought him on the stretcher. The conclusion he came to was that either an electrical fire started when the monsters broke through their house or they lit it on fire when they realised he and his mother had escaped.
But, since he didn't have a clear answer and response, he shook his head. The officer briefly wrote something down on a clipboard he had in hand before resuming his questioning.
"Alright, do you remember where you were going after you left your house?" Again Indra had no answer, he couldn't exactly say he was being chased by mythological monsters and be taken serously.
"Alrighty, that's all the questions I have right now. Thank you for cooperating buddy. I pray you and your mom make a full recovery." The officer finished before leaving the room.
As the door clicked shut Mr. Wilson looked at Indra with a serious expression. "I'm guessing you want to know how your mom is doing?" he said.
"Hn." Indra nodded his head. "Is she okay?"
he asked.
"Your mother isn't in danger. While she has many injuries, given a few months she is expected to recover enough to resume daily activities."
"Will she wake up soon?"
Dr. Wilson sighed before responding. "She's in a medically induced coma right now so she won't wake up until we are assured nothing else will go wrong. You may not remember but the field you and your mother were in after you escaped your house was once a civil war munitions site. That's the place where they stored ammo and weapons. While you were walking it seems your mother, given her injuries, triggered a buried landmine and the resulting explosion landed you here."
'What!?' Indra thought. That didn't make any sense, he fought there amongst over a dozen monsters and no bombs went off. The only thing that had near enough firepower was--
'So that's what they think happened. My lightning strike led them to believe we encountered an unlucky active bomb hidden under the topsoil.'
But that led him to another question. A lightning strike and a bomb have two very different impacts. He knows humanity on this world are advanced enough to tell the difference. It's as if something was blocking them from seeing the truth.
"So what am I supposed to do until she wakes up?" Indra finally speaks after processing.
"For now you'll be staying here. Click the button you touched before if you need anything. Food, drinks, a pillow. A nurse will come shortly after." With that, Dr. Wilson stood up and left the room, dimming the lights as he did so.
Indra layed back down on the bed and shut his eyes. With his immediate questions out of the way. Other things started to pop up in his mind. Namely, the Susano'o. Due to the ambush yesterday he never got the chance to ask about it.
How did his mom have the Susano'o? Does she know about the gods? Are there others with abilities from his own world? The thoughts rolled through his mind until well into the afternoon until a pulsing light forced his eyes open.
He looked across to the source and saw the most peculiar thing. The necklace from around his mother's necklace was emitting an orange light. Indra furrowed his brow and gently shifted out of bed and walked over.
He curiously reached out to touch the necklace and found it emitted a pleasant warmth, like a warm breeze at the beach. As if in a trance he took the magatama necklace off his mother's neck and brought it around his on and clasping it together.
All at once, the necklace stopped emitting light and Indra broke out of his trance like state. He stared blankly at the necklace and wondered, 'When did I put this on?'.
'Just now kid.' a deep, gruff voice suddenly voiced out. Indra jumped in suprise and turned to scan his surroundings.
"Who said that?" He called out. There was nobody Indra could see and he didn't hear anyone enter the room.
'I did.' The voice sounded again and Indra drew upon his demigod powers and felt the vibrations in the air to see if there were any invisible foes in the room. 'Ooooh, clever one aren't ya! Using aerokenisis to search your surroundings.'
"Whoever's there, come out." Indra called again. This mysterious person was getting on his nerves.
'Tch, I'm getting on your nerves? Try having your body broken apart and being forced to spend hundreds of years in an inanimate object!'
Finally, pinpointing the source of the voice, Indra looked down to the necklace hanging around his neck.
'Ah, looks like you found me. Took ya long enough. Westerners are so clueless.' The voice chastised.
"Who are you? What do you mean you are stuck in an object?" Indra questioned, he stopped sensing his surroundings but kept his powers circulating in case he needed them.
'Hahaha! Finally getting the the important questions. Be amazed mortal, your speaking to the one who has played a pivotal part in your world's history. The great and mighty God Susano'o!"
Indra was speechless. This was the second time he began questioning his existance since he found out he was a demigod. In his old world the susano'o was referred as a God of destruction due to its power and size but it wasn't and actual God. Now, his mother's necklace is not only speaking to him but also claiming to be susano'o, the gos from this worlds Japanese mythology.
'Pah, I ain't no myth. If it weren't for that damned Posidon of yours I'd still be ruling the waters of Japan!' The voice, now dubbed Susano'o, stated.
"Explain." Indra said in a warning tone. This guy is somehow reading his thoughts and it was getting on his nerves.
'Hmph, you're no fun. Fine, whatever. Dreary kids. If you really want to know then I would sit down, this will take awhile.' As Indra goes back to his bed he still keeps his guard up in case something happenes.
'Ahem." Susano'o starts, 'As I was saying before, I've been trapped in this damned necklace for centuries now. It all started back in the 40's. 1843 to be exact. The mortals of America were attempting to open trade with Japan and expand their influence over their government and religion. When things weren't working out well that bastard Posidon sent one of his demigod spawn to solve the issue, not yet knowing about the existance of me and the other Shinto gods quietly lording over Japan.'
Indra was thinking back to what he had read about the Shinto gods. They were mythological gods in Japan with their height of worship being the 7th century C.E. He recalls many of their gods being reminiscent of abilities back in the elemental nations. More precisely, the Uchiha clan. With his late brother possessing the mangekyo abilities Ameterasu and Tsukuyomi. It seemed that their worlds had more in common then he last thought.
'Are their other pantheons in the world besides the Greek gods and Shinto?' Indra asked after considering that his knowledge might be too limited.
'No clue kid. I never bothered with all that crap. I was content ruling over the seas and peep-- Ahem, admiring my lovely sister Ameterasu.' Whatever Susano'o meant to say Indra did not want to know.
'Moving on, that damned son of Posidon came to Japan with his ships ignored the people of Japan's wishes and threatened them to comply and open their ports. Of course, their ships being under my influence, I was pretty pissed this hooligan was out here using daddy's power to get what he wanted. So I made their stay as miserable as possible and they left, but not before that sea spawn declared he would return.'
Susano'o paused in his story to grumble about 'how rude a visitor can be.' and 'that he should've thrown the guy overboard and have a shark to eat him.'
"Hurry it up. It's almost time for the nurse to check in." Indra interrupted his rambling whilst looking up at the clock on the wall near the hospital room's door.
'So impatient. I swear you Greeks are the rudest bunch I ever had the displeasure of meeting.'
'So on, a year later that same demigod comes barging back to Japan as rude as ever to finish what he started. I woulda let him go if that was all he did, but the guy had the gull to take a piss next to a monument of my lovely and beautiful sister Ameterasu. Naturally, I had get revenge for her. So I cursed the sea spawn so that everytime he went near water he would fall ill and loose some of his lifespan.' Susano'o finishes in a pround tone.
"I'm guessing this is the part where Posidon comes in and turns you into a piece of jewelry?" Indra says unamused. This 'god' was getting more annoying the more he spoke.
'Unfortunately. Over the next few years nothing happened and I lived content as I watched the people of Japan prosper. But when that sea spawn eventually died off, Posidon found out the reason for his untimely death and was furious. He left America and crossed the sea to Japan, bringing with him massive earthquakes, tsunamis, and a hurricane. Since I was unprepared for the sudden attack I was focusing all my power on trying to prevent disaster by minimizing the damage.
It was then that Poisdon appeared, trident and all and called for a duel. In my anger I accepted, and we had a mighty battle that lasted for a week. It took the combined powers of the Shinto and Greek gods to stop widespread destruction.'
"So you pissed off the wrong guy and had to deal with the aftermath." Indra states.
'As our fight was coming to an end I had a lapse in judgment and Posidon landed a deadly blow to my body. As my godly body was dying I came to my senses and realized what I had done. In an attempt to stop Posidons rage I proposed a deal. I would offer myself up and in return he would forget about harming Japan. He agreed but what he did next was beyond what I could have expected. He ripped out my godly Essence and squeezed it together and merged it with ten sea pearls. Trapping my power. After that he left a battered land and what was left of my body.'
"So Posidon took your godly power and trapped in in pearls. But that doesn't make sense. The necklace you're residing in has magatama beads, not pearls." Indra interjected.
'That would be my handiwork. With the last bit of power left in me, I used one of my tendons, turned it into a string and put my soul in it to avoid death. After that I left the string in the hands of one of my sister's followers.'
"So you aren't the beads, you're the string."
'Yes, but at the same time, no. What Posidon doesn't know is that to use more than one pearl at once, he requires a piece of my body which has now become part of the sea. When a pearl is put on the necklace, I transform it into a magatama bead, no way am I leaving my power in the shape of his ugly pearls.' Susano'o replied.
Indra's mind was swirling with the new information. It answered his question on how his mother was able to use susano'o when fighting the monsters. But it also left him with many, many more questions and theories.
There was so much more to the world. So much he didn't know about the Greeks. He didn't even know how the necklace came to be with his family in the first place.
'I can answer that. YOU Indra Arakawa, are a decendant of the young woman I left my soul string too. More specifically, your mother's side. I've been passed down for years from parent to child until your maternal grandfather moved the the United States with your mother a year before your birth. She knew how to use my power since it was that very same power that was used to ward off monsters on their journey to America that ultimately led to your grandfather's untimely demise.'
It seemed that he hadn't escaped from trouble after his last life. It followed him to this world and was slowly brewing until his life flipped over and he landed in the hospital after a supernatural attack.
"So what happens now?" Indra finally asks. He was stuck in the hospital for the time being but the path ahead was unknown.
'For now? Stay under the radar. As long as I'm around your neck I will do my best to shield you from the eyes of monsters and gods alike. Recuperate and practice your abilities. I can shield you for at most two years before gods can find you with their divine sight.'
"What about the other...fragments of your power. Where are they now?" Indra questioned. It could be disasterous if there were giants going around with susano'o armor.
'They are scattered around the world. But most of them supposed to be here in America. During the second world War that the children of your big three gods initiated, Zeus, Hades, and Posidon, they were lost in the fighting. That's why your mother and grandfather came to America. They found the pearls of my power that were in Japan and moved here to gather the rest.'
"What happens if they are all together?"
'I will be reborn.' Susano'o speaks in a whispered tone.
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Extra: Pots and Lightning don't Mix
It was a normal day for Indra. He had finished school earlier and didn't have any homework so he decided to clean up around the house.
His mother was in her room taking to some of her old friends back in Japan and he was bored our of his mind. The books he ordered to read up on, Engineering for Beginners, still haven't come in.
He walked up to the sink, pulled over a stool, 'Damn his height' and started cleaning the dishes. They had piled up since breakfast and had yet to be done.
As he was washing them he quickly noticed that it was difficult for his small hands to dry the dishes in a timely manner. So, he thought up a shortcut.
He would use his aerokenisis to lift the dishes in the air and surround them with a warm breeze to dry them more efficiently.
It was a good idea. A great one even. He got to easily finish his task whilst also practicing the more minute aspects of his powers. What he didn't realize, was that the static in the air was being drawn to him unconsciously.
He was washing a metal pot, with it being in his right hand and a sponge being in his left. Just as the sponge made contact with the metal, the static reacted to his power and generated a series of sparks that traveled to the hand holding the pot and shocked him.
"Dammit!" Indra cried out. In his shock, he dropped the pot and it fell into the sink, smashing down onto a bowl and cracking it in half. The crashing sound alerted his mom and as he heard her footsteps approaching. He quickly placed the floating dishes on the counter just as she walked in the room.
"Indra, I heard you yell. Is everything alright?" his mom asked in a worried tone.
"I'm fine kaa-san. But, I broke a bowl..." Indra hesitantly replies. Damn this body and its fast reflexes.
"Oh dear, while I'm happy you decided to help out, I think it would be best if you stop for now. I'll clean up the mess." she says in a humorous tone.
Needless to say, Indra felt humiliated. He was supposed to be an adult for crying out loud! Even if his body was that of a child, it was embarrassing to mess up something so simple.
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End of Chapter.
I'M ALIVE!!!!!
Sorry for not updating for a few months. I lost motivation. But, the recent Boruto episodes and Naruto's badass new power up gaven me the motivation I needed to finish writing this.
